Eligibility

To take part in this research study, you must be:

• 18 or over
• living with chronic pain (pain lasting longer than 3 months) located below the neck

You can’t take part if you are pregnant or have an uncorrected visual impairment that may affect your ability to view a computer screen.

What you’ll get for taking part

You will be reimbursed for reasonable travel to and from the University and receive £20.

University of Bath students and staff are not eligible for travel reimbursement.

What you’ll do

You will attend a 60-minute lab session in 10 West on our University of Bath campus. During this, you will complete questionnaires about how you think and feel about pain, and a series of computer-based tasks.

You will then be asked to complete a lower limb movement task. Throughout this, we will record your movement and speech using video and audio recording.

A week after this lab session, you will complete a 15-minute online questionnaire relating to their experience in the lab.

Deadline

This study ends on 30 June 2025.

Your data

The information collected about you during the research will be kept strictly confidential and only used for audit and payment purposes.

Any information about you that goes into any reports will be anonymised to ensure that so that you cannot be identified.

All audio and video recordings will be stored securely and only accessed by the research team.

Ethical approval

This research has received favourable ethical approval from the University of Bath's Biomedical Sciences Research Committee. Ethics approval: 1993-3205